Ahem, roadmap people? Come on, pull your socks up. We need to pick the ball up here.
On 14 Dec 2009, at 01:53, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > Great feedback. Moving to dev@ > > Thanks Roger. > > Cheers > Jan > -- > > On 13 Dec 2009, at 13:57, Roger Binns wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Jan Lehnardt wrote: >>> The worst that could happen is that >>> people stop asking questions and I certainly don't want that. >> >> That is likely to happen with crossposting too because people are less >> likely to answer and they certainly won't go an answer in all locations so >> some of them won't have answers. > > I think I'm willing to take that risk :) > > >> Anyone searching those locations first >> will then see a lack of answers and assume that CouchDB is dead or stagnant. > > If people are really interested in CouchDB, they quickly discover the > active community. If they stop looking after one empty question, I don't > think they really care :) > > > >> >>> The underlying problem is probably that the mailing list archives lack >>> any sort of features that people find useful on StackOverflow. Maybe >>> there's an angle to solve this in a nice way. >> >> How about fixing the home page to have a link about getting help in the "Get >> Involved" section. (Currently you are encouraged to come up with patches >> which is a little too much at the beginning!) >> >> I've created a wiki page with what I think should be pointed to: >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Getting%20Help >> >> I think it would be best if a Google Custom Search was created which >> automatically included the relevant locations (mailing list archive, wiki, >> bug tracker) and hosted on the front page of couchdb.org. >> >> http://www.google.com/cse/ >> >> BTW it is probably also worthwhile making the front page of couchdb.org >> indicate that the project is actually alive. There is no date on the page, >> there is no "news" feed or even a link to news and pages like the roadmap >> have no dates and are out of date anyway. >> >> Roger >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAkslY0EACgkQmOOfHg372QQuLwCgoEfC6hDDDWVDD8ztrEDkhtl3 >> WVsAoOATGBKZpUnhR+sIJEQ/3MMk1uKk >> =mxFM >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >
